 brian
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We're thinking of taking the kids with us next season, so the dreaded school holidays dates which I've never had to do before.
Anyway, half term holidays oviously mobbed and pricy, but Edinburgh schools are off April 1-17, so it looks as if luckily the first week of Easter will not coincide with French or Swiss holidays.
Can anyone tell me what dates the English schools are off next year ? Does it vary area to area ?
TIA 
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School s in the London Borough of Hounslow have their Easter break 3-17 April.
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In my area (Richmond upon Thames) Easter hols seem to be 31.03- 18.04.06 for state schools, although at least one public school is out from 05-26.04.06, apparently.
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brian
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Thanks folks, looks like most of the UK will be off that week 
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In some ways it is helpful that there is conformity across the autorities. For us, Zits 1 and 3 are in Hampshire schools, Zit 2 is in a Berkshire school and Mrs Z teaches in a school that adopts the Surrey timetable. This can make holiday planning a little difficult. 
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North Yorkshire start 10th April for 2 weeks
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Good Friday next year is the 14th April, I thought that Easter Holidays in public schools were uniformly the week before and after ???
But I don't have kids, so what the heck do I know
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There have been lots of discussions about changing the pattern of the school year slightly, one consequence of which would be to fix the 'Spring break' for the first two weeks of April regardless of where Easter falls. There seems to be wide agreement on making this change, so many if not all local education authorities will eventually adopt this holiday pattern.
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As of 2007, all schools should be adopting the "spring break". However, many local authorities have decided to adopt this as of this year. For the next two years there will be disparity...but all should even out after that.
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There's a proposal in at least some areas to move to a 6 term year in the state sector. I believe my LEA will adopt that within the next couple of years. What effect that will have on holiday prices at school hol times, who knows? I bet that they don't go down.
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richmond, I don't think it will have any effect. Pupils will still have the same holiday entitlement, so there will still be supply and demand issues which allow tour operators to charge higher prices during school holidays. In summary the changes are: one week less holiday in the summer; two weeks break in October (up from one week); two weeks at Christmas; one week in February; two weeks at the biginning of April; one week at the end of May.
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rob@rar.org.uk, I didn't know the timings of the new hols, which are obviously not very different from the current ones. I thought that there might be more hols in the main ski season, which might (conceivably) have reduced demand and thus prices during any one week.
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You know it makes sense.
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richmond,
we have the 6 term year now in Bristol. Doesn't make much of a difference except that (some) half terms are longer and (all) holidays are shorter - for example the summer holiday this year is 22nd July - 31st August.
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